Lucia Moholy, Photographes : Made in Hungary, Arles/Milan, Actes sud/Motta, 1998
Lucia Moholy (1894-1989) : tra fotografia e vita, M.a.x Museo, 25 November 2012 – 31 January 2013
→Lucia Moholy, a hundred years later, San Telmo Museoa, San Sebastián, 21 October 2016 – 22 January 2017
British photographer and graphic designer.
Art history has long kept Lucia Moholy in the shadow of her husband, László Moholy-Nagy: Bauhaus’ frequent moves, the war, and transfer of part of the school’s archives to the United States contributed to the erasure of her work, which was often attributed to others. Born to a family of socialist intellectuals, she was encouraged from a young age to study philosophy, philology, and art history at Prague University. After graduating, she worked as a subeditor for various publishing houses before moving with her husband to Weimar, where she taught at Bauhaus. There, her knowledge was vastly exploited in the institution’s publications without her ever being officially hired. She initiated Moholy-Nagy to photography and together they created their first photograms. She took classes, most notably from Otto Decker, and documented Bauhaus’ move to Dessau and its new headquarters by taking a vast number of pictures with a 18 x 14 camera. She also used a Leica to take full-frame portraits infused with a great sense of impartiality. She opened a photography studio in Berlin and worked with the Mauritius photo agency.